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    What about a Suntrip dvd?

    in General Psytrance

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    That sounds more realistisch and possible for sure! :) We are actually working right now on the new site which will be up within 1-2 weeks, we can probably make such a place :)

    Great! The site allways seemed kind of too minimalistic to me. There's not alot of information going on there. Glad it's going thru a redesign tho :)

    What about a Suntrip dvd?

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    lol... That would be great but...

     

    - we don't have a decent camera

    - I and Fabien have a daytime job which is sometimes killing me, more would be even more destroying (but ok, I can manage that :P)

    - I think 10 people would buy :D

     

    Party footage would be great as we have great atmosphere on the parties... but well, we need a GOOD camera at least :D

     

    Also, I think it would only sell if there is a dvd about the new school rising in the world, but then you need at least 5 countries paricipating... no?

     

    Just some thoughts :)

    Then how about a video section on the suntrip website with interviews or videos of live acts? Doesn't have to be one long movie, but just a few clips of each artist updated as neccesary and when new (video) material is out. :)

     

    Doesn't have to be hosted on the site itself, could be embedded to youtube or DailyMotion (which is alot better in terms of resolution & quality).

    What about a Suntrip dvd?

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    You won't feel any impact of 24/96 audio quality versus 16/44.1. Unless you're that 1% of the population with superb hearing with a 10 mil$ sound system.. Even then I bet it's not much of a difference.

     

    I'd much rather see a dvd with artist interviews + some live video footage, aswell as a tour and some interviews of the guys behind suntrip records.

    The cancers of todays Psy scene

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    I think we have that this year :D

    Probably more if I had the time/money to search through the CRAP!!!!!

    Well probably there is.. for most people. I've got that damn specific taste which most (new) music doesn't fit into. Psytrance-wise anyways.

     

    So could u give me that list of 20 psychedellic overkill albums from this year? I wanna check that out.

    New Psynews.ORG subforum

    in Psynews.ORG

    Posted

    This is funny, I was trying to find some Man With No Name reviews, but there's no way of searching by his artist name because I get the error: "One or all of your search keywords were below 4 characters".

     

    What's up with that?

     

    Anywho.. I'll just search for album titles then.

    This weeks stupid covers

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    Sorry, it's an old argument that I won't ever let rest :) there are lots of words that can be used to describe how awful something is... "gay" as a pejorative is just immature, if not directly homophobic. This culture should be welcoming to all people.

    Ok. How about then instead we use "Full-on" as a pejorative? :P

    Yahel's covers

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    Lol, I've never realised putting them all together on one page would seem so cracy. It's like a comic book.

     

    Edit: does he secretly want to star in a new matrix movie or something..?

     

    Edit2: if psynews had an offtopic forum i'd call for a photoshop challenge. oh well, cant have it all. :)

     

    Edit3: that "private collection" looks like a cover of a porn series :ph34r:

     

    Edit4: but the winner is the vinyl dj cover :lol:

    The cancers of todays Psy scene

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    I think they DO take advantage of the new, cheap food processors that software gives you - most trance today has very distinct flavours. A lot of the time though I don't like the ingredients they use; too bland.

    By advantage I didn't mean take advantage of ready-made synths with great patches, but the advantage of the creative potential of some software that is available out there. But allready it seems like software developers are working in the wrong direction.. making it even more easy for the newbies out there to 'create' something that sounds good. One example would be Nexus, you will hear praise about it among almost every amateur artist out there. That's only because it delivers something good in just a few clicks. Pre-recorded samples and predefined patches, way to inspire creativity..Not.

     

    Instead of choosing these virtual synths by their creative potential, people choose them by their ease of use. It's like the software developers are now taking the role of music making from them, and just putting a few buttons for that minimal ammount of control. The role of the music maker behind this new (commercial) software is continuing to fade. Of course I'm over-exaterating a bit, but it sure seems to go in that direction.

     

    Rant rant rant.. Who cares. I still use internal FL instruments made like half a decade ago, and with a bit of tweaking and eq'ing they can sound terrific. Anywho, I'm out of this thread.. no reason to continue discussing this. :D

    The cancers of todays Psy scene

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    mmm cake

     

    With software you have so much control over your cake; with hardware the flavours all munge together and it's really hard to taste the separate flavours unless you have a kitchen costing tens of thousands of pounds. Listen to the clips of the Crop Circles cake for an example; no-one can deny it's a truly awesome recipe developed by a group of Michelin-starred chefs with amazing ingredients, but because of the tools they had to use, the melody chocolate overwhelms the flavour of the hihat raisins.

    :D

     

    Indeed, with software anything is possible. It's a shame artists aren't taking that advantage tho.

     

    Edit: It's funny how I allways mix up Crop Circles with 'Crap Circles'. An honest mistake it must be..

    The cancers of todays Psy scene

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    Are we talking from an idealistic standpoint or are we looking at the actual music?

    Because if you take full on you will see plenty of full on formulas, similar breakdowns, the bass structures. If you talk about dark-psy, they all seem to have at least one track with their squelchy synth line or atmospheric ominous pads, not counting the glitch elements -or at the very least- a track that is for the love-of-god no slower than 148 BPMs. We are full of predefined formulas, we might not talk about them, artists might not consciously use them, but they are there to make sure it sounds LIKE PSY, and not like electro, or minimal, or bloody house music.

    There's a difference between full-on and darkpsy, at least I see a difference. Look, full-on is to me the equivalent of eurodance. A commercial rape of a genre just to inspire more sales (a.k.a the "cool" genre among kids, mtv and stuff). So full-on seems to me like a stripped down version of what usually psychedellic tracks contain, and the main thing that gets pushed forward in this type of music is the bassline (for the kids on E on parties).

     

    And then I hear things like "There's good full-on". Yeah, there might be and there is. But what is the point? Strip down psytrance, and then add a layer or two again and now its "good full-on". I mean that's like dripping alcohol into an alcohol-free beer can. Why not just call it psytrance in the first place? It's got a fatter bassline and now it's supposed to be called a whole different genre?

    As for darkpsy, this is a genre I respect. Because it actually is different enough to be called a sub-genre of it's own. And there are inspiring artists in this genre such as psyskovsky.

     

    About the predefined formula's bit: By formula's I didn't mean "140 bpm, lots of dynamics etc", as an artist you probably have some idea what you want to do with your track. But what I meant was these new artists that keep popping out like mushrooms after rain, almost all of them have this one idea in their head - "How can I become famous and do so quickly?". So they start looking for formulas in other tracks and build on them. As I see it they're looking for 'recognition' in the scene, and the quickest way to do that is to copy the tested formula of other more known artists. It's like they're too scared or just lack the effort to try something new.

     

    People blame it on software, how it changed everything and made it possible for everyone to make music. You know what, software doesn't make music, people make music. Sure it's easy to make music with software, but damn it, it's not easy to make good music with software. It requires a whole lot more effort, and this is what these new artists are struggling with and eventually just give up and go with the tested formula. Where with hardware you had it (almost) easy - it sounds great out of the box, the software on the other hand requires alot of tweaking (to be able to make something creative that actually sounds good). Not to mention the extra eq'ing and all sorts of effects just to level it up so it sounds like it was made with hardware.

     

    The primary point of this conversation remains and thus why I had to explain this in such parsimonious detail. PSYTRANCE IS DEAD, because the term is too ethereal and ultimately meaningless, Because the culture is full of people who have their own idea of what the sound should be like and vibe and there is not a general consensus. This thread is living proof of it. Psy got diluted to the point where folks don't recognize it's many facets anymore. Back in the 70's you had led zeppelin and you knew it was psychedelic, nobody was going to argue that. Today the world is a different place, more complex and segregated.

    The scene now seems to be made out of clusters, where there are strict definitions of each subgenre. It's like psytrance was a cake made out of 12 different chocolates, and a bunch of people took their own favourite chocolate slice. Then they turned that slice into a cake of it's own. And now you have a choice between 12 cakes, instead of just taking 1 cake and have all the chocolate in it at once. Now unless your name is NHJOHYENNRO, you can't label your album's genre with 'goaminimaltekkfullondarkpsy'. So these artists just choose one genre, simple formula, copy-paste, and Voilà! Cake served.

    I bought the AKG K701's!

    in Music Making and Production/Industry

    Posted

    I had some scrap velvet fabric lying around from a painting I did some years ago and thought my head would appreciate its texture. I cut out a piece approximately the width of the headband (a little longer because of the curve), and long enough so I could fold it several times to get it nice and padded. I folded it to the approximate shape of the headband, then held it in place while I wrapped sewing string around both the headband and fabric enough times (a lot!) that I knew the velvet wouldn't slip, then tied it off with a good knot. It's been VERY nice compared to those hard ribs diggin' in me cranium. :)

    U got a screenshot of that?

     

    I think I'll give it a try, before I turn into a tri-headed alien.

     

    Edit: Lol, I said screenshot. I meant a picture of the headphones. :lol:

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